No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.